Around Thanksgiving time, I decided to re-pierce my ears. I have had pierced ears since I was a junior high student, but I went many years without wearing earrings. When the kids were little, they would just pull on them and just getting clean clothes and a shower each day seemed like victory. In fact, I went so many years without earrings that one ear closed up.

Now that the kids are older and I am paying a bit more attention to my appearance, I decided to try earrings again. I just recently was able to take out the studs and play around with my old earrings. I started out by buying a new jewelery box. I had been keeping my jewelery in many smaller boxes and it just wasn't working for me. I have quite a few pairs left from previous years and am adding on with some new ones.

The funniest part of this is Cate. She LOVES having a mom who wears earrings. She will hardly let me have a day without a pair, and she wants to pick out which ones I wear each day. That means I'm wearing those teddy bear earrings from junior high school a little too often for my taste. But it is kind of sweet to enjoy a bonding moment of jewelery with my girl.